3.drag somebody’s name through the mire literaryCRITICIZEto say bad things about someone in public, so that other people have a bad opinion of them 玷污某人的名声,辱没某人
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mire• One outstanding local example was the Broyle in Ringmer, 2000 acres of scrub and claymire, an old deerpark.• As the country is at present face down in the mire, such a development could only have positivebenefits for us all.• I was sinkingfast in the mire of soft money.• No one who had ever struggled in the mire as she had, could fail to understand.• It will take a political Houdini escapetrick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire.• His enemies had made falseaccusations against him and wanted to drag him through the mire.